Chandani
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Sanskrit; meaning 'moonlight'
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Chandani is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 1.6Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 14K
- INIndia≈1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chandani itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈94,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled চাঁদনী in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Sanskrit; meaning 'moonlight'
Cited for this meaning 1
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Where in the world
(measured from records)Chandani counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1K | Chandani | 102 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Chandani | 27 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | চাঁদনী | 7 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #266 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Chandani | 42 |
| US United States | — | 328 | 1 in 1M | 326 | Chandani | 126 |
| GY Guyana | — | 53 | 1 in 14K | 53 | Chandani | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chandani mean, and where does it come from?
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- Is Chandani a male or female name?
- Chandani is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (naampy, 2015) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Chandani?
- Mondonomo estimates about 94 thousand people named Chandani in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chandani. After it come Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Chandani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 328 people named Chandani in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Chandani compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Chandani is the 266th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chandaniThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chandani” — the 266th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.